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enDisrupting Money Laundering by Mexican Transnational Organized Crimehttp://wilsoncenter.org/event/disrupting-money-laundering-mexican-transnational-organized-crime
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Proceeds from the sale of illegal drugs and other trafficking activities are the life-blood of transnational organized crime. The process of “laundering” this money is a critical element in the criminal enterprise, but governmental efforts to disrupt the flow of dirty money have had mixed results.</p>
<p>A briefing was held by three experts in the field of law enforcement, organized crime, and money laundering about the latest trends in money laundering and recent efforts to disrupt the flow of dirty money to TOCs.</p>
<p><em>Featuring:</em></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-event-location field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Directions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/directions">Directions to the Wilson Center</a></div></div></div>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:50 +0000msalazar23649 at http://wilsoncenter.orgIs the Border Broken? Rethinking the Conventional Wisdomhttp://wilsoncenter.org/event/the-border-broken-rethinking-the-conventional-wisdom
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Does border enforcement prevent terrorism? How effectively does it reduce contraband trafficking? To what extent should corresponding investments in physical barriers, technology, and personnel, which have been massive in the past ten years, be directed elsewhere besides the southwestern border? If not terrorists and other national security risks, who is being stopped at the southwestern border? And do the apprehensions of economic migrants from Latin America, who represent the vast majority of apprehensions, improve national security or are they instead distractions from true threats?</p></div></div></div>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:22:33 +0000msalazar19592 at http://wilsoncenter.org